Evgeni Altshul
Certified Big Data Solution Architect
14+ years of experience designing scalable, resilient, and future-ready data solutions. I specialize in bridging strategic business vision with end-to-end technical execution on a foundation of high-performance data processes.
Currently, I am the Co-Founder & CTO of Puaro Security, where I lead the architectural design of AI-native application, making sure that frontend efficiency, API orchestration, and robust data lifecycles work in perfect horizontal alignment.
Companies I have worked with
Cisco
Updated the data platform for customer operations
CTDEV
Delivered an analytics upgrade for 40M daily sessions
Dell
Scaled telemetry analytics across 30+ product lines
Waves Audio
Built data systems powering personalization in 170 countries
Tango.me
Built real-time engagement dashboards for 50M monthly users
Traffilog
Introduced predictive maintenance that cut downtime by 18%
Epam Systems
Led data platform migrations for regulated enterprise clients
Cisco
Updated the data platform for customer operations
CTDEV
Delivered an analytics upgrade for 40M daily sessions
Dell
Scaled telemetry analytics across 30+ product lines
Waves Audio
Built data systems powering personalization in 170 countries
Tango.me
Built real-time engagement dashboards for 50M monthly users
Traffilog
Introduced predictive maintenance that cut downtime by 18%
Epam Systems
Led data platform migrations for regulated enterprise clients
How I drive impact
While my foundation is built on architecting modern data platforms and efficient pipelines, I operate across the full solution stack.
14+ years of scale
From enterprise data platforms to AI-native startups, I've built systems that grow with you.
AI-native products
I build deep-context AI products for supply-chain, data-flow, and code security.
Requirement clarifier
I clarify requirements into clean architecture and efficient implementations suited for your team.
Impact over technology
I focus on delivering results over technology, ensuring the best stack is the one that delivers results and meets your needs.
From the blog
Notes on application security, data platforms, and AI systems in production.
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Read articleWhat Is Qdrant? How Vector Databases Power Modern AI Search
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What colleagues say
Recommendations from people I've built with across data, architecture, and delivery.
BABaruch OzchakirStrategic IT & Cloud Leader
Former VP IT, Amdocs
“I had the privilege to have such a talented DBA as Evgeni in my department for 3 years. Evgeni was responsible for overseeing the design, development and maintenance of various database systems including our production environment He has a deep knowledge in various databases technologies with a special expertise with all versions of Microsoft SQL. Evgeni is very responsible, proactive, self-motivated, intelligent team player and always eager to adapt new technologies. Evgeni would be a great asset to any company”
NINina BannikovaData, Product and Business Analyst
Former colleague, ServiceNow practice
“I was lucky to work with Evgeni and I can recommend him as an excellent team player, an attentive colleague, open to any help and a responsible engineer working for results. ”
DMDmitry BaranovSoftware Architect
Partnered on real-time telemetry program
“I would totally recommend Evgeni as a highly proficient data solutions architect. He is never afraid to get down to an investigation of complex technical issues and then present the summary and solution ideas to project stakeholders. Evgeni's 'let's-do-it' attitude, combined with his vast experience, always helped with the progress and team spirit.”
YAYael Ben-DrorDirector of Business Applications & Analytics
Cross-functional partner, BI modernization
“As a Project Manager & System Analyst I've had the pleasure of working with Evgeni on many projects in the past 3 years.Among others – we have built a fully dynamic DWH for our BI application, with a flexible schema and ETL.Evgeni is a professional DBA with an open-mind and creativity, an autodidact expert in SQL Server.He is extremely kind and patient and will always do the best he can to provide the most suitable solution for your needs.”
NINikita BugrovskyPrincipal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Former tech lead, RSA Security cloud team
“I had a pleasure of working with Evgeni at RSA Security. As part of the cloud team we delivered several projects together. We were focused on increasing visibility & applying performance optimisations to the existing infrastructure. Evgeni's perfect communication skills allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to resolve cross team collaboration issues easily. His integrity & client focus allowed us to take the right decision when we were dealing with client data. Evgeni's technical leadership & deep knowledge of databases & data manipulation techniques saved us lots of hours of code optimisations.”